Tibetan Interrogatives Flashcards

to become familiar with the principle forms of asking questions in Tibetan, with some examples

1
Q

གང

A

what?

eg/ རྒྱུ་མཚན་གང་ཡིན་ = what is the reason?

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2
Q

ཅི་ ཇི་

A

what?
how?

བདེ་བའི་རྒྱུ་ནི་ཅི་ཡིན = what is the cause of happiness?
དངུལ་ཅི་ཡོད་ whatever money I have
ཅི་ཡང་ whatever
ཅི་ཡང་མ་ཡིན་ nothing whatsoever

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3
Q

སུ

A

who?

eg/ བླ་མ་འདི་སུ་ཡིན = who is this lama?

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4
Q

ཅི་ཚམ

A

how much? How far?

ཅི་ཙམ་སྡུག་ཀྱང however much you may suffer…
Cf/ ག་ཚོད་ how much? How many?

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5
Q

གང་གི

A

whose? of what?

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6
Q

གང་གིས

A

By what? By whom?

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7
Q

སུས

A

by whom?

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8
Q

གང་ནས་ གང་ལས

A

whence? from what?

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9
Q

སུ་ལས

A

from whom?

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10
Q

ཅི་ནས ཅི་ལས

A

from what?

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11
Q

གང་ལ

A

to what? where?

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12
Q

སུ་ལས

A

from whom?

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13
Q

ཅིར་ ཅི་ལ

A

to what? why?

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14
Q

ཤེས་རབས་ཆེན་པོ་སུ་ལ་ཡོད

A

who has great wisdom?

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15
Q

མི་དེ་དག་གང་ནས་ཡོང

A

where do these men come from?

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16
Q

ཁང་པ་དེ་སུའི་ཡིན

A

whose house is that?

17
Q

བདེ་བ་གང་ལས་ཤར

A

From what does happiness arise?

18
Q

ཁོང་ནི་གང་ལ་འགྲོ

A

where is she going?

19
Q

Four principle interrogatives in classical Tibetan

A

གང་ what? who?

ཅི་ - ཇི་ what? how?

སུ who?

20
Q

ག་རེ་

A

what

21
Q

ག་པར་

A

Where

22
Q

ག་ནས་

A

from where?

23
Q

ག་གི་

A

which?

24
Q

ག་དུས་

A

when?

25
Q

ག་ཚོད་

A

How many? How much?

26
Q

ག་འདྲས་

A

how?

27
Q

སུ

A

who?

28
Q

སུའི་

A

whose?

29
Q

སུ་ལ་

A

To whom

30
Q

འདི་ག་རེ་རེད།

A

What is this?

31
Q

ག་ཚོད་

A

How much? How many?

དིའི་གོང་ག་ཚོད་རེད། what is the cost of this?
ཆུ་ཚོ་ག་ཚོད་རེད། what is the time? (How many hours?)